Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1956 — Page 1

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SOMOZA FLOWN TO SURGERY ■ ' ■ ' . w W WT ' ■7 ’, . ' r * ”«-. --r-t. .‘ : ■' ’’■ '/ F I . ■ ■■ 4 ’ • , 4 K W fc'S«|j "'■' '’<O ■’ • ■ &«» i sh*/ % - d NEARLY ASSASSINATED Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza is rushed Worn plane to ambulance waiting to speed him to Panama hospital for operation to remove a bullet lodged in his spine. President Eisenhower dispatched American surgeons to perform delicate operations.

Supreme Court Ruling Backed By Stevenson Urges Americans To Accept High Court Segregation Rule LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP)—Adlai E. Stevenson said today it is most important that Americans accept the supreme court's ruling against school segregation “as law-abiding citizens." Launching a day of campaign talk in the South, the Democratic presidential nominee reaffirmed his stand that he believed the courts decision on the touchy racial issue was "right.” “Some you feel strongly to the “contrary," he said li’a speech prepared for delivery at Me Arthur Park here. “But what is most important is that we agree that once the supreme court has decided tihs contitutional question, we accept that decision as law-abiding citizens,” Stevenson said. “Our common goal is the orderly accomplishment of the result decreed by the court,” he said. Stevenson was to fly here from Oklahoma City. From here, his itinerary took him to New Orleans and then to Miami Beach, Fla., tonight. The candidate said in his Little Rock speech that he stands “squarely" on the: Democratic plank rejecting the use of force to “interfere with the orderly de termination of these matters by the courts.” “The court’s decree provides for the ways and means of putting into effect the principle it sets forth," Stevenson said. “I am confident that this decision will be carried out in the manner prescribed by the court.” He repeated his belief that the President should work “to bring together those of opposing views in this matter — to the end of creating a climate for peaceful acceptance of this decision.” Stevenson made no reference to the strife which has risen in some areas over racial, integration of schools. * But he noted there is “a critical division of national opinion regarding recognition of the common rights of American citizens of different racial origins.” Stevenson said this division is “necesarlly reflected" in the Democratic party, because the party “has its roots in every sec tion of the country." “I find reason for great encouragement in the fact that the Democratic party has risen above this division.” he said. “Here is the promise, the assurance, that the nation too will rise above this division.” „ Stevenson said that in the South today, he sees “heartening signs of progress on all fronts. “There is reason to take great pride in what has been done, and reason for great hope for the future that stretches immediately ahead,” he said. , INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Warmer east and south portions tonight. Low tonight in the 50s. High Wednesday near 80 extreme north, 80-86 central and south portions. Sunset 6:38 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 6:38 a.m. .... L —• —— ; ——i — K -~-— * *

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Maintain Vigil At Bedside Os Somoza Nicaraguan Leader Reported Improved BALBOA. Canal Zone (UP) — Doctors maintaining a constant vigil at the bedside of Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza have decided to postpone further surgery to remove a “harmless” bullet lodged near his spine, it was . reported today. ; Somoza. shot by a w'ould-be as- ; sassin Friday. rallied slightly , Monday night after taking an un--5 expected turn for the worse Monday morning. Doctors removed i three bullets from his body in a ■ series of delicate operations, but I decided the fourth is doing no > harm. It is lodged under the skin . between the backbone and the upper right shoulder. j the U, S.-opera,ted Gorgas hospital i - The evening bulletin issued by . said Somoza made definite improvement during the day. It re- , ported some return of reflexes to ’ Somora’s left arm and leg. His breathing was mare regular and , his blood pressure and tempera- ‘ ture were “all right," the bulletin said. An earlier bulletin disclosed So- . moza’s left side had developed parlysis following the operations ! for the removal of the bullets. It . reported also that Somoza had dis- , ficulty breathing and that surgeons opened a small hole in his windpipe and inserted a tube to , give him relief. Reports from Managua said some 40 persons of the 250 ar- , rested following the attempted assassination Friday night have (Continued on Page Eight) Youth Charged With Assault In Shooting FRANKFORT, Ind. (UP) — Robert Earl Swisher, 21. Jamestown, Monday was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill in the shooting of Marlyn Smith, 21, Frankfort. Police said Smith, who was in critical condition at Clinton county hospital with a bullet wound In his abdomen, was shot Sunday *in a “gang fight" between youths of rival communities. Swisher was held on $3,500 bond. Agree On Plans On Hospital Addition Board Recommends Few Minor Changes Representatives of A. M. Strauss, architectural firm of Fort Wayne, and the board of trustees of Adams county memorial hospital agreed on plans for the improvements at the hospital in special session Monday night, it was learned today. A few minor changes were recommended by board members, but the general plan was accepted and will be ready prior to the bond sale October 3. Invitation for bids will be published shortly after the bond sale and board members expressed the belief that work could be started this year on the enlarging and remodelling of the county buildingAll hospital board members' attended the Monday night session with the exception of Dee Fryback, who was away from the city on business. It was indicated today that one more special meeting would" be held for formal acceptance of the plans.

Egypt Seeks Censure Vote From Council Hopes To Win Vote From UN Council On Britain And France UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —Egypt hopes to out-maneuver Britain and France in security council debate on the Suez Canal and win a formal vote of censure against the two nations, Egyptian sources said today. The security council meets at 3 p. m. Wednesday to hear complaints brought by Britain and France and by Egypt. Egypt already has set the stage for a procedural debate that could help turn the tables on Britain and France. Egyptian sources said Egypt also would try to take the wind out of Western sails by reaffirming its readiness to negotiate a new Suez charter guaranteeing freedom of passage through the canal. The sources said Egypt would set forth in detail evidence showing the nation was capable of operating the canal efficiently. An Egyptian government statement Monday night said a new convoy system has been worked out to permit 44 ships a day tq transit , the canal —the highest number ’ since Western pilots walked out , It gave no details. . British prime minister Anthony Eden called his cabinet into spe- ! cial session today to plan strategy to counter the Egyptian moves and to cement the strained Anglo- . French alliance. France was reported still unhappy over results of the second London Suez j conference. t Egypt lodged a complaint Mont day night charging Britain and j France with creating a “danger to t international peace and security.” This apparently was designed to nullify the British and French I vote in the council. r Under - council rules, a . country that is a party to a dispute is barred from voting in any deci- , sion taken in connection with it. . The British and French action of [ Sunday carefully refrained from use of the word “dispute.” The two Western Allies referred only to “the situation created by the unilateral action of the Egyptian government in bringing j to an end the system of international operation of the Suez Canal.” Egypt is not a member of the counciil but will be invited to participate without vote in the council’s Suez debate. It is backed by (Contlnuea on Page Eighti Infant Is Killed As Truck Smashes Auto Mother Critically Injured In Wreck NEW HAVEN, Ind. (UP) — One-month-old Maria Portteus was killed and her mother, Mrs. Dorothy E. Portteus, 29, Fort Wayne, was injured critically Monday in a smashup involving a large traetprtrailer, a farm tractor - wagon outfit and two automobiles. Mr. and Mrs. Leopolde Suarez, San Antonio, Tex., and Hilbert Meyer, New Haven, were injured also. The crash was on U. S. 24 four miles east of here. Police said a tractor - trailer driven by Richard W. Snodgrass, 25. Lancaster, Pa., ramnied the rear of Mrs. Portteus’ car which, in turn, clipped the rear of the Suarez car. The Suarez car crashed into a ditch and Mrs. Portteus’ car rammed the farm wagon driven by Meyer. - The tractor-trailev then rolled over on the car, trapping Mrs. Portteus and her daughter Inside. Mrs. Portteus w r as taken to a Fort Wayne hospital. ~ Snodgrass was held on SIO,OOO material witness bond pending an inquest by Dr. Edgar Mendenhall. Allen county coroner. Six Os Family Are Stricken By Polio VERONA, N.D. (UP) — Six of 11 children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cox, Verona, were in a Fargo, N.D., hospital today undergoing treatment for polio. Five of the six victims had received Salk anti — polio vaccine. None of the cases was believed to i be paralytic. Those hospitalized were Ells- ■< worth, 18: Douglas and Francis, I 14; Malon. 10; Nada, 8 and Thomas, 4. ri

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Hurricane Subsiding In CT Intensity After Killing 10 In Gulf Coast Areas

Major Address On Farm Issue By Ike Tonight Eisenhower Speaks At Peoria Tonight Over Radio And TV WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower flies to the Midwest today for the first major farm speech of his reelection campaign. Adlai E. Stevenson challenged him in advance to spell out precisely what he has done to fulfill his 1952 farm pledges. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower were scheduled to depart from Washington’s National Airport this afternoon on a flight to Peoria, 111. The Chief Executive will deliver his address there at 9:30 EDT tonight in the Bradley University Field House. The. 30-minute speech will be broadcast and telecast by the Columbia Broadcasting System. The speech and visit to the MidWest will: “■ Give Mr. Eisenhower his first opportunity to answer Stevenson’s charges that the administratioh has brought about a “farm depression.” . Provide the President a lAafo form for announcing any new administration plans to raise farm income. Include a presidential boost for the candidacy of Illinois Republi- . can Sen. Everett Dirksen, who is running for a new term against State Sen. Richard Stengel. On the eve of the speech, Stevenson, speaking in Oklahoma City, called on the President “to tell us when he speaks at Peoria . < . precisely what his administration has done to fulfill its pledges to the American farmer.” Stevenson maintained that in 1952 Mr. Eisenhower promised farmers to continue price supports at 90 per cent of parity and later said he would work for full 100 per cent parity. Yet, said Stevenson, the administration has fulfilled neither of these pledges but has shown “neglect and indifference” to the farmer. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty left no doubt that Mr. Eisenhower would answer his Democratic rival. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower would “present the facts of the farm situation” because they “needed straightening out.” The White House would not comment on a published report that Mr. Elsenhower might also suggest (Gontinu-ed on Page Five) Vote Registration Deadline October 8 Clerk Office Open Additional Hours Richard Lewton, county clerk, issued a reminder today that his office will remain open until 9:30 p. m. Wednesday to accomodate shoppers and retail personnel who wish to register for voting in the November election. Lewton, who reports that registration is brisk, will also keep his office open Saturday afternoon until 4 o’clock tor those persons who cannot visit the office during the regular hours. The office will be open Wednesday night. Oct. 3, and Saturday afternoon, Oct. 6. The deadline for registration is Oct. 8. All persons must be registered by that date to be eligible to vote in the November election. Persons who have moved out of their precinct must also visit the clerk's office to transfer their registrations. Any person who is in doubt as to whether he is properly registered. is invited to contact the clerk’s office. Registration is also being handled at the campaign headquarters of-- the Democratic* and Republican parties.

Says Reactionaries Running GOP Party Kefauver Continues Attacks On Nixon MARQUETTE. Mich. (UP)—Sen. Estes Kefauver said today that a major issue in the present election campaign is whether the voters "lyaut the ultimate power in this country to pass into the hands of Richard Nixon.” In a speech prepared for deliv- - ery at a rally here, the Democratic 1 vfbe presidential candidate said . that President Eisenhower “has i mistaken his direction by a full / 180 degrees.” » "The futuie of the Republican party really belongs to Richard - Nixon and the reactionaries who t have built him up and whose - spokesman he is,” Kefauver said, v Kefauver stepped up his ’ cam- > paign argument that voters should t give “serious thought” to the posr sibility that Nixon might become president. But Kefauver did not j refer to Mr. Eisenhower's health. “The old guard knows that if they can use President Eiserihow- - er. whose leadership they do not genuinely accept or follow, to hold t mi to power in the White House, i that Nixon, and not Eisenhoiver, s yill be the real power,” Kefativer . said. Kefauver said the voters should * Hite themselves whether U»e|t“waaL - four more years of retired million- ■ aires.” In a campaign speech prepared f for delivery at the Hotel North- ’ land here, Kefauver charged that ’ President Eisenhower and his ad--1 ministration have confused the general welfare with General Motors.” Wall Street has been substituted • for Main Street as the hub of the 1 nation,” he said. Kefauver headed back through 1 the Midwest on the second half of ! a 16-day campaign swing by plane and auto from Florida to Washing--1 ton state. The Eisenhower administration. 1 he said, “again is taking you down the dreary and familiar Republican 1 road which runs from reaction,to ruination, of high cost of living and high interest rates, from spotty un(Continued on Page Five) Another Polio Case Reported In City 12-Year-Old Girl Reported Stricken Another polio case was reported to the city health board today, bringing the area total to 21 this year. The latest victim of the disease is Karen Lough, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lough of 116 S. 10th street. The girl became ill Sunday and was taken to St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne Monday, suffering paralysis in her right arm. Her condition is not considered serious as yet. Karen is the second person to be stricken after receiving two of the polio, vaccine shots, Mrs. Jane Arnold of route two, a polio patient at Adams county memorial hospital, also received two shots before she became ill. Most of the other 19 area cases of polio occurred during the month of August. The two recent cases came after a lull of several weeks in the polio incidence of Decatur and Adams county. Polio incidence was the highest since 1949. Two persons, Robert Railing of Decatur, and Mrs. Lora Rauch of near Hoagland, were fatally stitfcken. The polio epidemic spurred a vaccination program in this locality. Local physicians were kept busy during the height of the polio season administering the shots. A reminder was issued today by local health officers that polio shots are available from family physicians. The shots have proved to be almost 80 percent effective in preventing paralytic polio.

12 Killed As C 47 Crashes Info Mountain l 1 Air Force Plane In Crash Monday In f Colorado Mountain - BUENA ViST a, Colo. (UP)—A 3 survival team left Buena Vista at ] dawn today to recover the charr--3 ed remains of 12 civilians and I military personnel killed when an air force C 47 transport plane ( crashed into the side of lofty I Mount Yale. , The twin-engined plane from s Peterson Field at Colorado' Springs, enroute to Hamilton air . force base, Calif., crashed into 1 the 14,172-foot peak at the 11,500foot level shortly before noon , Monday. A party of seven civilt lans reached the scene late Monday and found no survivors. f Spokesmen at continental air defense command at Colorado t Springs said names of the victims I probably would be released sometime today after notification of ” kin. They said some civilians ; and at least one woman were aboard. The'survival team, attached to 1 ENT air force base at Colorado ■ -Springs, expected to reach ’ the scene early today and remain there throughout the day. I Deputy sheriff Frank Manshelm ■ Jr., of Salida, Colo., who led the t (Oonunuea on Page JElgttt) ■ Youth Is Seriously 1 Wounded By Shotgun l 1 L, " - . VEEDERBURG, Ind. (UP) — i Phillip Crumley, 13, Stoneblutf, ! was wounded seriously Monday i night when a teen-age girl he and . a friend were teasing fired a shotgun at him. State police reported Phillip and Dean Hancock. 14, were boyishly teasing Myretta Cox. 13. She told authorities she picked up the gun to "scare” the boys and the gun went off. The charge struck Phil-* lip above the heart. Fort Wayne Man Is Killed In Accident FORT WAYNE (UP) —Kenneth Marvin Reed, 34, Fort Wayne, was killed early today when his automobile skidded in loose gravel on a hard-surfaced highway and rolled out of control into a field. Reed was thrown from the car. 1 Police said he was driving in a 8 curve on U.S. 33 north of Fort r Wayne when the car hit pebbles I thrown onto the road from a 1 gravel road intersecting the highway. . - r ~~ I Sister Os Decatur « Lady Dies Monday j Funeral Thursday For Mrs. DeArmond J h Mrs. Homer DeArmond, 44, of b East Sparta. 0., i and a native of t Adams county, died at 7:50 o’clock 0 Monday evening at the Altman p hospital. Canton, O. She had been ill six months with cancer of the p lungs. The family had. resided ip. 9 East Sparta eight years. ’ *==sSX- s Mrs. DeArmond was a member of the Methodist church at East w Sparta. , s Surviving are her husband; a daughter, Ruth, and a son, Arthur, both at home; three sisters, Mrs. « Dale Stout of Berne, Mrs. Ralph | Teeter of Geneva, and Mrs. Herman Alberding of Decatur, and a brother, Oren Stucky of "Portland, t Funeral services will be con- v ducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the d Yager funeral home in Berne, the o Bav..A.-- E. Givens officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery at u Bern*. Friends may call at the s funeral home after 3 p.m. Wednes- c day. t

Fund Captains Will Meet Here Tonight Seek Contributions For Industrial Site The fund raising campaign, to be known as “Invest in a Greater Decatur,” will begin officially tonight with a meeting of fund captains at the Chamber of Commerce office at 8 o'clock. The meeting has been called by the financial committee, which is headed by Fred Haugk. Purpose of the committee and group of captains wjll be to solicit contributions to a fund for the purchase of the Scheimann property for use as an industrial site. Captains will be assigned to certain divisions and will receive "‘lnstructions about the campaign at tonight’s meeting. Th properey purchased as a result of the campaign will be offered to new industry choosing to locate a plant in Decatur. The various divisions and their chairmen include barber shops, Boyd Rayer; dentists, Dr. John Spaulding; manufacturers and wholesalers, Lowell Harper; lumber and building supplies, Fred Ashbaucher and Milton Swearingen; implement dealers, Al Riehle and Martin Sprunger; service stations, Wilbur Petrte. Garages, Harry Schwartz and L. R. Zintsmaster; motela and tlotlßts. Toro LntM! cowl awd taed companies, Roger Kelly arid Ralph Smith; transportation, Tony Teepie; insurance agencies, Carl Braun; food markets, Fred Foos and Don Stover; retail merchants, Cliff Brower, Dale Morrissey and Ferris Bower. General public and service clubs, Clarence Ziner; plumbing, heating and electrical shops, Robert Ashbaucher; real estate and auctioneers, Glenn Hill; taverns and restaurants, Andrew Appelman and Cletus Miller; lawyers, accountants and loan agencies, Robert Smith; contractors, Ferd Klenk; doctors and undertakers. Dr. Harold Zwick, and welding and machine shops, Clarence Bultemeier. Each of these captains will have ! (Continued on Page Five) Plan Safe-Driving Program October 12 Pat O'Connor To Be At Decatur School A teen-age safe-driving program, tailored for high school students and featuring a nationally known race driver, will be presented at Decatur high school Friday, Oct. 12. Pat O’ConrjoY, youthful Indiana racing favorite and one of the nation’s top competitors in the Indianapolis “500,” will present the program before a stugent assembly under the nattotfhF sponsorship of Champion Spark Plug company, Toledo, 0., and in support of the accident prevention campaign of the national safety council. “Tighway safety is no accident” has been given at more than 100 high schools in several states and bears the endorsement of educational, civic and law enforcement officials as an especially effective program for teen-age drivers. O’Connor relates the safe driving practices of the race tracks to everyday highway driving. He also shows a film, talks to driver trainIng’Glasses and, when requested, will make a visual safety check of student cars. Secretary Wilson Undergoes Surgery WASHINGTON (UP) — Secretary of defense Charles E. Wilson was reported in satisfactory con- ; dition today following a prostate operation. < The 66-year old cabinet member underwent the operation Monday at Walter Reed army medical center “to correct a benign pros- ; tatic condition.”

Death-Dealing Storm Subsides In Needed Rain Mother And Three Children Victims Os Severe Storm ALBANY, Ga. (UP) — Hurricane Flossy whose mighty winds caused at least, 10 deaths, including a mother and her. three children, on a rampage out of the Gulf subsided today into drenching and needed rain. The sopping storm brought an end to a drought in sections of south Alabama and Georgia, At *8 a.m. the remnants of the once-killing howler were located in extreme southwest Georgia just west of Albany, moving in a direction between northeast and . east northeast at 10 miles an hour. As the hurricane slashed inland near Panama City, Fla., Monday night two jets were rammed together by the turbulent winds. As one spun to earth it hit a home and killed an expectant mother and her three children. The weather bureau said storm warnings remained up east of St. Marks, Fla., to Tampa and along ' the Atlantic from Brunswick, Ga., W Wilmington. K. C. Flossy’s highest winds were [ down to 50 miles an hour. To the s north and east of the now extratropical storm winds were up to j 25 to 35 miles an hour for 300 to 350 miles, , Heavy rains were forecastfor the day in east Alabama, Georgia ’ and South Carolina, spreading into I North Carolina during the day. 5 Those areas should watch for pos- . sfble local flood conditions, the weathermen warned. ■ Among late casualties reported from the storm were an unidentifled Negro construction worker who was electrocuted by a live wire in Mobile and a 15-year-old Negro boy, run over by a motorist at Slocumb. Ala., who said hurricane whipped rain blinded him. A search still was in progress for eight persons isolated in boats or on an island in the choppy Gulf waters off Louisiana. Highways east of New Orleans were impassable this morning but the highway patrol expected high waters to subside by afternoon. In the New Orleans area, most evacuees were expected to be back in their homes today. Waters reached a depth of about five feet in some sections of the city near Lake Pontchartrain Monday but was rapidly receding to allow residents to return to their homes. The coast guard said all personnel trapped on off-shore oil rigs by Flossy apparently were reached Monday and oft companies expected to resume operations today. The motor vessel Carport was located about 4:30 a.m. 40 miles south of Grand Isle and 15 persons were reported safe aboard. Army engineers in New Orleans said there were no breaks in Mississippi River levees, although some were damaged. The water topped the embankment along the navigation canal at Violet and flooded the nearby countryside. Gunfire Breaks Tense Stillness On Frontier JERUSALEM Israeli Sector (UP) — Sharp bursts of gunfire broke the tense stillness along Israel's frontier with Egypt and Jordan Monday night and early today. Israeli authorities said machine gun fire from the old city of Jerusalem riddled the Abutor quarter of the Jewish sector. No causualties were reported. One Israeli soldier was wounded in a exchange of gunfire between an Israeli patrol and an Egyptian, position. Israel reported.

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